Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.